all digital STILL isnt viable.. no matter how hard people want it to be. You wont be buying physical copies of games... but you WILL be buying physical HDD's to store them... imagine huge PS4 games like KZ... thats less than 10 games youll be able to put on your brand new 500gb PS4... buy a new HDD every 10-20 games? no thanks. ill keep sticking to physical copies.

Right?
But with Hard Drives you need to buy both, the game and the HD.
With the physical copy, all you need is the game. Well, the game and some HD space, but much, much less than with an all digital version.
So IMO, unless this play as you download works incredibly fast so you can just have all you digital games uninstalled waiting to just start playing as they download, then I don't see having a large digital library this coming generation. It's to bad Sony didn't just give us a single USB port in the back of the console for external storage. If you could have a USB hub with multiple 2 TB plus drives, then $#@!! you could have as much games installed digitally as you want. I guess that's a nice touch that the XBO offers.

Keefy be realistic, 50gb game on the max available 1TB HDD, how long will it take to fill up, 20 games of the same size?
And thats not including DLC, patchs,etc
Digital is way off untill 50gb is like 100mb to HDD's.

all digital STILL isnt viable.. no matter how hard people want it to be. You wont be buying physical copies of games... but you WILL be buying physical HDD's to store them... imagine huge PS4 games like KZ... thats less than 10 games youll be able to put on your brand new 500gb PS4... buy a new HDD every 10-20 games? no thanks. ill keep sticking to physical copies.

But do you seriously play 10 games at once? I have no problem with deleting games once I have finished with them, as they are still stored against your PSN profile and can be downloaded again, so whats really the issue? (Other than people with data caps?)

what i hate about DD is that i need to keep it on the HDD. i know that sounds kinda silly but i wish they gave us an option to keep it on a cloud service...now THAT would be fair. not like it's our game anyway right?

Keefy be realistic, 50gb game on the max available 1TB HDD, how long will it take to fill up, 20 games of the same size?
And thats not including DLC, patchs,etc
Digital is way off untill 50gb is like 100mb to HDD's.

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I am realistic. It is not way off, it is now, I have been using digital distribution for 10 years.
If you do not want to use it you do not have to but I do and will.

For Ps4 it seems that even the disk based games will be fully installed to a HDD, so even with those you will need to start uninstalling some games to get more space.

precisely why i like the option of keeping a disc. not only i can sell it later down the road, it's easier to install it rather than download. i actually love the installation and have always loved that feature on the 360.

Originally Posted by mudshark

You are correct, read the last sentence of the 3rd paragraph of the linked article.

really? weird because that's the first i've heard of it. makes no sense why it would be required. on the X1, before the change, it made sense because supposedly the disc was only data, didn't have boot records. which means it was just like a PC disc that can't be played, it needs to be installed first. due to DRM. so makes no sense here why they need to force that. they may have gotten that wrong i think.

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